Stella Whitelaw (born 1941) is a British writer and journalist, who has published 58 novels, as well as over 400 short stories in national women's magazines. She began her writing career as a cub reporter and rose to become the first female chief reporter in London. Her writing career, over half a century, includes romance, cat stories, detective fiction, mystery, writing skills, and human nature. She was Secretary of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at the House of Commons for almost 4 decades and worked with 11 United Kingdom prime ministers. First hand experience of the Airey Neave bombing. She lives in Surrey. She was awarded an MBE in 2001 for services to journalism. She won the Art of Writing competition in the London Magazine, judged by Sheridan Morley and the Elizabeth Goudge Cup at Guildford University. She has lectured globally on many literary subjects. Politically her lecture Behind the Scenes at the Houses of Commons covers 37 years of UK politics with subjects as diverse as UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher's teeth. Works Weave a Loving Web (1971) When Jeanie Ross leaves the sheltered life of a Scottish orphanage to work as a seamstress in Carnegie Brown's fashionable London boutique “Rags”, her only ambition is to sew well enough to escape the wrath and sarcasm of the sewing-room supervisor, Madame Colette. But the moment Jocelyn Tait, a spoilt and beautiful heiress, sets eyes on young Jeanie, a daring plan forms in Jocelyn's mind. The shy and timid Scots girl is thrown into a strange and bewildering new world of wealth - complicated by the unexpected arrival of Jocelyn's stern guardian, Luke Adamson. Love is a Star Garden (1974) Another Word for Love (1977) Sweet Chastity (1979) Grimalkin's Tales: Strange and Wonderful Cat Stories (1983) Desert Storm (1983) Into the hot desert sun walks a man from Leila's past, the man she had fallen for when an innocent teenager. She had changed now and he did not recognise her. James Miller was in the Middle East to track down a secret device lost in a plane crash on the mysterious Black Mountain. His mind was not on that one night in Austria when Leila had thrown herself into his reluctant arms. Leila had tried to forget the humiliation, hardening her heart to all men, but during their perilous journey to find the Black Mountain, she discovers that the old magnetism is